John Barr (Canadian politician) explained

John Barr
Riding1:Dufferin
Parliament1:Canadian
Term Start1:1904
Term End1:1909
Predecessor1:New riding
Successor1:John Best
Office2:Ontario MPP
Term Start2:1898
Term End2:1902
Predecessor2:William Dynes
Successor2:John Roaf Barber
Term Start3:1890
Term End3:1894
Predecessor3:Falkner Cornwall Stewart
Successor3:William Dynes
Term Start4:1875
Term End4:1879
Predecessor4:New riding
Successor4:William Jelly
Constituency4:Dufferin
Party:Conservative (Ontario), (1875-1902)
Otherparty:Conservative (Canada), (1904-1909)
Birth Date:4 March 1843
Birth Place:Elizabethtown, Canada West
Occupation:Physician

John Barr (March 4, 1843  - November 19, 1909) was an Ontario-based Canadian physician and political figure. He represented Dufferin in the Legislative Assembly of Ontario from 1875 to 1879, from 1890 to 1894 and from 1898 to 1904 and in the House of Commons of Canada from 1904 to 1909 as a Conservative member. From 1890 to 1894, he was a member of the provincial Conservative Equal Rights Party.

He was born near Elizabethtown (later Brockville) in Canada West in 1843, the son of Irish immigrants. He graduated as an M.D. from Victoria University in 1866. Barr served as an associated coroner for Grey County. He was Deputy Master in the South Grey County Orange Lodge. Barr first set up practice in Horning's Mills but later moved to Shelburne. In 1880, he married Ermina E. Palmer. After being reelected in 1879, he was unseated after an appeal. He was later reelected several times to the provincial and federal assemblies. He died in office in 1909.

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